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OUTTA MY WAY SPOOK FUCKING SHITS
Is this really what you do with your spare time?
>>7997266
Spare time is a spook
spooks is a spook
hail eris
What books affected the way you live your life?
Candide
shoplifting from american apparel
>>7997220
the god delusion
I'm looking for a science fiction short story where an intelligent alien race sees humanity at an early stage and decides they're scary as fuck and better off dead, so they send a weapon to destroy them, but then after that humanity meets and helps another species and the intelligent race realized they're not so bad and then feel bad about sending a weapon.
>>7997210
This?
>http://www.creepypasta.com/the-gift-of-mercy/
Hey, /lit/, where can I find a literary boyfriend as well read as this guy?
>>7997152
leave your cellar and go to a bookstore
Isn't this the DFW guy?
I'm here, OP.
Come to me.
>10,000 word fantasy novelette due by the time I'm 40
>i'm 39.5
guys, i'm scared. put me on the fast track to publishing and step on it!
Where are you at?
>>7997203
conceptual phase
>>7997208
Oh damn.
>Empson published this at the age of 24
>at that age he already knew more about English poetry than you ever will
Any other books with fascinating close readings of specific poems?
bump, I'm interested
>>7997142
William Empson was one of the great geniuses of literary criticism.
It is unfortunate that nobody even does the kind of thing he did anymore.
In simple terms, what exactly does Zizek mean by "pure ideology"?
>>7997120
memes
>>7997120
That statue makes Machiavelli look like a badass
spooks
Can we have a past, present, future thread?
>>7997078
But only one of those books is worth reading.
>>7997083
Only one of those books features a real warchief
>>7997087
They're all good warchiefs imo cinema wise
(sigh) Here’s the thing: I spent my formative years—basically, from the age of 12 until my mid-20s—feeling not “entitled,” not “privileged,” but terrified. I was terrified that one of my female classmates would somehow find out that I sexually desired her, and that the instant she did, I would be scorned, laughed at, called a creep and a weirdo, maybe even expelled from school or sent to prison. You can call that my personal psychological problem if you want, but it was strongly reinforced by everything I picked up from my environment: to take one example, the sexual-assault prevention workshops we had to attend regularly as undergrads, with their endless lists of all the forms of human interaction that “might be” sexual harassment or assault, and their refusal, ever, to specify anything that definitely wouldn’t be sexual harassment or assault. I left each of those workshops with enough fresh paranoia and self-hatred to last me through another year.
My recurring fantasy, through this period, was to have been born a woman, or a gay man, or best of all, completely asexual, so that I could simply devote my life to math, like my hero Paul Erdös did. Anything, really, other than the curse of having been born a heterosexual male, which for me, meant being consumed by desires that one couldn’t act on or even admit without running the risk of becoming an objectifier or a stalker or a harasser or some other creature of the darkness.
Of course, I was smart enough to realize that maybe this was silly, maybe I was overanalyzing things. So I scoured the feminist literature for any statement to the effect that my fears were as silly as I hoped they were. But I didn’t find any. On the contrary: I found reams of text about how even the most ordinary male/female interactions are filled with “microaggressions,” and how even the most “enlightened” males—especially the most “enlightened” males, in fact—are filled with hidden entitlement and privilege and a propensity to sexual violence that could burst forth at any moment.
>>7997069
medium quality bait or, if not bait, pic related
Very poor attempt at trolling you underage cuck.
>>7997069
Your writing is engaging, I'd read on.
What's up with all the long ass introduction and foreword and shit. it's like those fuckers are trying to get a piece in the books.
>>7997006
haha long cow
It seems to be more or less standard fare for major publishers to add introductions to any new editions of classic works.
>mfw half of them have spoilers
I love this Aussie/Britbong humor.
It evolves. It's organic. It's so alive.
post the titles of books you never finishe. recommend one and tell us why.
the sea
the sweet hereafter
the English patient
naked lunch
perdido street station
the dragonbone chair
hitchhikers guide to faggotry
1984
hyperion
a feast for crows
the English patient I recommend because Seinfeld.
>>7997004
finished*
>>7997004
When a pleb pretends they like litature. Nice try, kid.
>>7997011
I guarantee I've read more books than you.
ITT: God-tier prose
>>7996838
holy fuck that book was soooooo boring
Post some God-tier excerpts
>>7996838
>>7996838
DUDE SENTENCES LMAO DELICOUS BLAZE
After reading Max Stirner I am now convinced that region is a "spook". I feel like I am biased with my knowledge though. What some good literature that bring some counter arguments for the opposition?
>>7996811
"Religion Ain't No Spook!" by Bartholomew T. McChristcuck.
>>7996811
"Have Fun in Hell You Leftist Slut" by R. E. "Action" Harry
What are the realistic chances of the next book being released this year?
Literally 0%
>>7996772
Early 2017 then? Before the final season hopefully.
No chance in hell.
First of all, the dude is obese and more than likely has health complications because of it. Secondly, he's lazy as fuck. He clearly doesn't care about writing anymore, otherwise he'd be writing every day like anyone who's serious about their work does. He's loaded thanks to HBO and all the royalties from the increased popularity. He just wants to blow through as much of it as he can and have a good time before he kicks the bucket in the next few years.
Lastly, why does it even matter? It's not even the last book in the series. On the incredibly unlikely chance he finishes it and gets it published this year or the next, you just know he's going to take a break after he finishes like he's said he does with every book. Then it's going to be another 5+ year wait for him to finish the last book, and there's even less of a chance of him surviving long enough and staying focused enough to finish.
If you care that much about the series, just watch the HBO show and be happy it'll get any sort of conclusion at all.
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Was he right?
>>7996639
What is it to be right?
it's at this moment that I realize, for the first time, the utter superiority of whites to all other races
Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over
There'll be time enough for sleep.
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